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Brad Jones Racing’s mixed emotions

Fullwood

By Thomas Miles

Brad Jones Racing enjoyed all of the emotions with Bryce Fullwood on a high and Jaxon Evans on a low in the Townsville opener.

Whilst Andre Heimgartner and Macauley Jones both made ground, the big headlines from the BJR garage were from the other two Camaros.

Leading the way was Fullwood, who shot from eighth to fifth and carried on his strong momentum with a fourth straight top 10.

It matches his career best of such results that was achieved from Townsville to Sydney Motorsport Park in 2023.

As a result, Fullwood could not wipe the smile off his face.

“Phil (Keed) and Jason (Bonney) are doing an awesome job on my car and we are gelling really well,” he said.

“I feel like we have really good belief in our little team and the boys did a mega pit stop.

“It would have been nice to qualify a bit further up because I felt like we had the speed to do that, but it is still a great day.”

The key moment to Fullwood’s day occurred in the lane when he went from seventh to fifth with an ultra-fast stop.

“That was all the boys. They practice so much and that is there time to shine and shine they did,” Fullwood said.

“We pitted the same lap and was a fair way off him (Davison) around 2s and that helped me big time.”

Meanwhile, there was more pain for Kiwi Evans.

After a first-lap incident meant his Darwin Triple Crown was reduced to just one corner, his Townsville 500 opener suffered a similar fate.

Evans revealed that in an incident unseen by the broadcast, a clash with Cooper Murray destroyed his front right and saw him retire after four laps.

“Starting at the back I could see everything unfolding in front of me,” he said.

“The inside line stacked up pretty quickly and I tried to avoid it, but rode the wheel of Murray unfortunately.

“Broke the steering and did some damage and spent the race in the garage.

“It is a shame because I did not have a great Darwin and this is not how I wanted to start this weekend. Thankful to the BJR guys, but super frustrating.”

Image: Pace Images/BJR

2025 Townsville 500

FRIDAY 11th July

9:20am – 9:50am: Supercars Practice 1

11:10am – 11:40am: Supercars Practice 2

1:20pm – 1:50pm: Qualifying, Race 20 (Fox only)

3:40pm: Race 20 (35 laps/100kms) (Fox only)

SATURDAY 12th July

10:00am – 10:30am: Qualifying, Race 21 (Fox only)

12:05pm – 12:40pm: Top Ten Shootout, Race 21 (Fox/Seven)

3:00pm: Race 21 (70 laps/200kms) (Fox/Seven)

SUNDAY 13th July

10:00am – 10:30am: Qualifying, Race 22 (Fox only)

12:05pm – 12:40pm: Top Ten Shootout, Race 22 (Fox/Seven)

3:00pm: Race 22 (70 laps/200kms)(Fox/Seven)

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